JWBananas

Bitcoin is deflationary. There is a hard limit on the total number of bitcoins that will ever exist. Every so often, the reward for mining a block is halved. Eventually there will be effectively zero reward for mining at all.

That might have been true a decade ago. But GPUs and FPGAs have long been obsolete for mining Bitcoin.

Mining is happening on custom silicon in large-scale operations. They specifically observed several of those large-scale operations in multiple nations and extrapolated out. I don't see how that methodology is flawed.

...I didn't believe you. I had to look it up to confirm it.

Damn. Never even noticed.

$2.73 would buy lunch tomorrow

Ow!

Tool time!

I asked DALLE-2 for a "wide shot of a delivery driver in a Louisiana bayou with bagged food" and it gave me this:

That's certainly a fascinating way to interpret "bagged food."

Clearly if the architects had seen [any] [sci-fi] [ever] they would have come up with the idea to shunt that excess energy into ad-hoc shields for poor Ensign Redshirt.

Okay, I didn't expect all of the examples to be from Stargate. But they certainly like that trope.

Tetrisphere

What is this, an extinguisher for ants?!

It's particularly jarring that they get it right in some episodes and wrong in others. Might make a good drinking game.